Why Did Jeffrey Epstein Call His New Mexico Estate “Zorro” Ranch?
Zorro means “fox” in Spanish. And the mailbox at the cattle guard entrance had fox hunting images on it.
Most people know about the island. Fewer know about his 10,000-acre compound south of Santa Fe: a 50,000-square-foot mansion in the middle of the desert with its own private airstrip.
He bought it in 1993 through a shell company called the Zorro Trust. When the state wanted to inspect a proposed runway on the property, Epstein withdrew the permit and built it on land he owned outright instead. No inspectors welcome.
Local ranchers near the town of Stanley never met him. Had no idea what went on behind those gates. But they knew when his crowd was in town, the mansion lights were so bright they drowned out the stars. They also noticed caravans of glamorous women pulling up to the double gate off Highway 41. Some assumed he owned Victoria’s Secret.
The property sits inside a circle of some of the most secretive locations in North America. Within about 100 miles: the Trinity nuclear test site. Los Alamos. A Scientology bunker storing L. Ron Hubbard’s writings on steel plates in titanium containers. A Catholic Church treatment center for pedophile priests. An elite boarding school founded by Armand Hammer and Prince Charles.
New Mexico has been keeping secrets since before the atomic bomb. Epstein didn’t end up there by accident. A journalist drove out there in 2019 to investigate, you can read the full story here. But let’s just say when you enter the house there’s 9-foot painting Called “Massacre of the Innocents” in the entryway and there is a lot speculation about eugenic projects going on here.
So why “Zorro”?
A fox raids the henhouse while the farmer sleeps. It survives by being smarter than everything around it. And Epstein put the hunters on the mailbox, not the fox. He could have also have just not been that smart, and just named it that cause there are lot of foxes in the area.
In a state built on secrets, he named his estate after the one animal known for never getting caught. For decades, he didn’t.